The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, and majestic in his radiant splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Isaiah 29:16,
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"You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me' Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?"
As the Lord brings his indictment against Jerusalem, he observes the level of corruption of thinking, of reasoning the people have sunk to. "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it "You did not make me" says it all. David observes this as well, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." Psalm 14:1.
How corrupt, and how regressive as well, that those who reject God pretend they were not created by him (or that he even exists!) This reads like today's newspaper (does anyone read a newspaper any more?) How many today would tell God, "You know nothing!" Before a person can "evolve" on approving of same-sex marriage, don't we have to tell God he doesn't know anything? Before a person can embrace the slaughter of millions of helpless unborn babies, don't we have to tell God he doesn't know anything? Before a person claims that God did not create us male and female, don't we have to tell him he doesn't know anything? Perhaps it is just easier for many to close their eyes to the proof all around us and simply tell God he doesn't exist!
Corrupt thinking! I see it referenced in Isaiah 9:2, "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned." Jesus, the "great light" entered into our world where people live and move in a darkness of both sin and corrupt thinking.
I see this corrupt thinking in 1 John 2:9-11 as well, "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them."
This darkness represents the consequences of living a life in rebellion to God. What should be plain to see is not. What conclusions should be arrived at, those things consistent with truth are not because of this darkness.
I see this corrupt thinking, an inability to see truth, in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."
A shroud, a darkness has settled over all people who reject Jesus Christ. Their thinking has become corrupt and they are unable to discern truth, they are unable to distinguish between that which is true and that which is not.
There is no better example of this darkness than the "narrative" that is pushed by our pop culture, by the media, by our politicians and our religious leaders.
Where those of us who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith can be frustrated that so many can't seem to ascertain truth about so much, the befuddlement of our pop culture that has so many stumbling over what they cannot see is quite striking.
How wonderful the clarity is that we have through Jesus Christ!
As the Lord brings his indictment against Jerusalem, he observes the level of corruption of thinking, of reasoning the people have sunk to. "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it "You did not make me" says it all. David observes this as well, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." Psalm 14:1.
How corrupt, and how regressive as well, that those who reject God pretend they were not created by him (or that he even exists!) This reads like today's newspaper (does anyone read a newspaper any more?) How many today would tell God, "You know nothing!" Before a person can "evolve" on approving of same-sex marriage, don't we have to tell God he doesn't know anything? Before a person can embrace the slaughter of millions of helpless unborn babies, don't we have to tell God he doesn't know anything? Before a person claims that God did not create us male and female, don't we have to tell him he doesn't know anything? Perhaps it is just easier for many to close their eyes to the proof all around us and simply tell God he doesn't exist!
Corrupt thinking! I see it referenced in Isaiah 9:2, "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned." Jesus, the "great light" entered into our world where people live and move in a darkness of both sin and corrupt thinking.
I see this corrupt thinking in 1 John 2:9-11 as well, "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them."
This darkness represents the consequences of living a life in rebellion to God. What should be plain to see is not. What conclusions should be arrived at, those things consistent with truth are not because of this darkness.
I see this corrupt thinking, an inability to see truth, in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."
A shroud, a darkness has settled over all people who reject Jesus Christ. Their thinking has become corrupt and they are unable to discern truth, they are unable to distinguish between that which is true and that which is not.
There is no better example of this darkness than the "narrative" that is pushed by our pop culture, by the media, by our politicians and our religious leaders.
Where those of us who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith can be frustrated that so many can't seem to ascertain truth about so much, the befuddlement of our pop culture that has so many stumbling over what they cannot see is quite striking.
How wonderful the clarity is that we have through Jesus Christ!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know.
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